django-rest-framework VS django-ninja

Compare django-rest-framework vs django-ninja and see what are their differences.

django-ninja

💨 Fast, Async-ready, Openapi, type hints based framework for building APIs (by vitalik)
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django-rest-framework django-ninja
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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django-rest-framework

Posts with mentions or reviews of django-rest-framework. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-27.
  • Ask HN: Is Python async/await some kind of joke?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2024
    - Django Rest Framework has no async support? https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/issues/7260
  • Build and Deploy a URL Shortener using Django REST Framework and Managed Postgres
    2 projects | dev.to | 12 Dec 2023
    A URL shortener is a service that transforms long and complex URLs into short, easily memorable ones. This tutorial guides you through creating a URL shortener using Django REST framework and Postgres, deploying it on Koyeb.
  • How can I implement 2FA with Django REST Framework?
    4 projects | /r/django | 29 Sep 2023
    Now, I'm converting this app into a Vue-based SPA (still powered by Django). I'm using the Django REST Framework to build the API that the SPA will interact with. (I'll be using token-based auth, via django-rest-knox. ETA: I'll actually be using djangorestframework-simplejwt.)
  • Creating Own Chat GPT
    9 projects | dev.to | 15 Sep 2023
    For the backend, we chose Python, Django Rest Framework. On the frontend, React, Redux, Saga, Sass. Let’s start with the backend, which was managed by Yegor. He writes about the server part of the project himself.
  • Building a Blog in Django
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Sep 2023
    With regard to JSON API aspects of Django, have you used https://www.django-rest-framework.org/ ? I find it to be very satisfactory.
  • A question
    2 projects | /r/django | 4 Aug 2023
    django-rest-framework and the Fetch API, or
  • Exploring Django's Third-Party Packages: Top Libraries You Should Know
    8 projects | dev.to | 8 Jul 2023
    Django REST Framework (DRF) Django REST Framework is a famous, powerful, and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs in Django. It provides a set of reusable components and tools to simplify API development, including serialization, authentication, permissions, and view sets.
  • FastAPI 0.100.0:Release Notes
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jul 2023
    I wish Django would take async more seriously. This comment gives a pretty good overview of the current situation (some points are more valid than others): https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/discussions/...

    The Python ecosystem is strange. Where other dev communities will embrace new ways of doing things faster than most people can keep up — the Python community needs to be pulled kicking and screaming into the light once ever decade or so. Python 2 to 3, ~10 years.

    async/await has been in Python since 2015, it feels like it's going to be another 5 years before we see people taking async seriously in the big packages. Same problem we had during the 2/3 transition. No library support, no developer support.

  • How to create REST API using Django REST framework
    5 projects | dev.to | 29 May 2023
    Thanks for helping Steve to complete his REST API, he is now partying🥳. You can get more information on how to use the Django REST framework to best way read the documentation. There are many alternatives to the Django REST framework, you can give them a try if you want,
  • Composite Class-Based View for non DRF views
    3 projects | /r/django | 29 May 2023
    [Django Rest Framework](https://www.django-rest-framework.org/) has the very nice idea of a [ViewSet](https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/viewsets/#modelviewset) that allows really minimal code to perform all the basic CRUD actions on a model.

django-ninja

Posts with mentions or reviews of django-ninja. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-07.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing django-rest-framework and django-ninja you can also consider the following projects:

fastapi - FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production

fastapi-admin - A fast admin dashboard based on FastAPI and TortoiseORM with tabler ui, inspired by Django admin

drf-spectacular - Sane and flexible OpenAPI 3 schema generation for Django REST framework.

Dependency Injector - Dependency injection framework for Python

django-tastypie - Creating delicious APIs for Django apps since 2010.

openapi-generator - OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec (v2, v3)

django-modern-rpc - Simple XML-RPC and JSON-RPC server for modern Django

Django - The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

django-template - A battle-tested Django 2.1 project template with configurations for AWS, Heroku, App Engine, and Docker.

connexion - Connexion is a modern Python web framework that makes spec-first and api-first development easy.

cookiecutter-django - Cookiecutter Django is a framework for jumpstarting production-ready Django projects quickly.